Pornhub parent company faces $80m lawsuit for hosting videos of trafficked women

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In total, the lawsuit demanded more than $40 million in damages—at least $1 million per plaintiff—as well as the money MindGeek earned from hosting and promoting their videos and legal fees. Garcia admitted that he and co-defendant Michael Pratt were the lead recruiters for GDP and GDT. Garcia and Pratt created Craigslist advertisements, along with fake websites and email addresses consistent with the websites to cause their victims to believe that they were applying to work asclothed models. Only after the victims responded to the advertisements would Garcia and Pratt disclose that they were actually seeking women for pornographic video shoots. In December, 40 women filed a lawsuit against Mindgeek, demanding more than $40 million in damages, plus any money Mindgeek earned from their videos, and legal fees. The amended complaint was filed on Thursday in San Diego federal court, according to local news outlet Fox 5 San Diego.

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• If MindGeek did not know GirlsDoPorn was a sex trafficking venture before October 2019, it should have known for a great number of reasons, the most notable of which is that GirlsDoPorn’s victims sent MindGeek complaints detailing the fraud and coercion they were subjected to by GirlsDoPorn.
• Further, Pratt instructed Moser not to tell the women the truth about their video’s distribution as she drove the young women to and from the video shoots.
• After the videos were posted on-line and widely available, many women contacted Moser to ask that their videos be taken down.
• A TikTok spokesperson shared that the platform prevents under-18s seeing sexually suggestive content and prohibits all nudity, pornography and sexually explicit content.
• As mentioned above, ringleader Pratt has fled the country and may not be easy to track down.

Research shows online danger is now so commonplace it has become normalized for girls, who face unequal – and typically more sexualized – types of threats compared to boys. “It has not changed, it is even worse,” said Sheila Estabillo, SAFE Online Project Manager for Plan International Philippines, who hosts online safety sessions for girls in the country. Among some of the countries where surveys were conducted, the Philippines has legislation specifically targeting the country’s high levels of online child exploitation, and lawmakers in Nepal and Brazil are working on regulations for young people’s digital protection. New Mexico’s Extreme Risk Firearm Protection Order Act (ERFPO Act), also known as the red flag law, can be used to remove firearms from a person found by a judge to be a danger to themselves or others.

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Online money scams have proliferated globally, boosted by financial technology and advancements in artificial intelligence, according to the international crime and policing body INTERPOL. Among participants in the surveys, young women and girls in Africa were most affected by money scams – with half being exposed to scams and a quarter having lost money. Authorities in Malawi have appointed a child’s protection ambassador and help provide train for school leaders, children’s NGOs and other civil society stakeholders on digital safety as part of a strategy for protecting children online.

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But the results highlight the voices and daily experiences of many of these young women face. But experts warned that platforms have so far failed to outpace spiraling online abuse and harmful content, often implementing safeguards after problems are raised. A coalition of groups fighting gendered digital abuse in the UK, including Chayn, have also campaigned for platforms to proactively build guards against abuse. Hussain wants to see more platforms prioritize “safety-by-design” and said tech companies are now investing more in controls.

We may earn a commission when you buy through links on our sites.©2024 GIZMODO USA LLC. Read our exclusive interviews with one Jane Doe who told us what it was like to be trafficked by GirlsDoPorn and how it has affected her life for years afterward. “The attitude these defendants expressed when the women complained [and] the scheme to shut them up was despicable.”

The complaint against Mindgeek details the extended abuse, harassment, and sexual violence that many women who were coerced into appearing in these videos endured. Ten more victims of sex trafficking operation Girls Do Porn have joined a lawsuit against Mindgeek, Pornhub’s parent company. The lawsuit alleges that the platform knew about the producers’ criminal activities years ago—and continued to host their non-consensual imagery on the site.

They were also loath to call for help, since they’d have to admit why they’d traveled to San Diego in the first place. As a result, several women felt they had little choice but to complete the shoot. The men waited until minutes before the scheduled start of shooting to present women with lengthy contracts. They were then pressured to skim the documents quickly and sign them so that the shooting could get under way. Several of those involved with Girls Do Porn have since been convicted, including Ruben Andre Garcia, who worked as a recruiter, producer, and actor for Girls Do Porn, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison in November, external. That’s precisely why GirlsDoPorn owner Michael Pratt, videographer Matthew Wolfe, and actor Andre Garcia created a bait-and-switch scheme to get the women to appear in their videos.

The judge in that case ultimately found in favor of the women and handed down a $12.7 million judgment against Pratt, Wolfe and adult performer Ruben Andre Garcia. While they were separate businesses, many of the videos produced by GirlsDoPorn were uploaded to and hosted on Pornhub. The lawsuit alleges that “as early as 2009, and definitely by fall 2016, MindGeek knew GirlsDoPorn was trafficking its victims by using fraud, coercion, and intimidation as part of its customary business practices to get the women to film the videos.” Moser admitted she knew that GDP produced pornographic videos for publication and dissemination on the internet, and that the young women being recruited to star in these pornographic videos had been provided false assurances that the videos would not be published on the internet. For example, Moser overheard Pratt, using the alias “Mark,” telling prospective models that the video footage would only be distributed on DVDs in Australia, and that the models would remain anonymous, statements that Moser knew to be false. Remarkably, despite a high-profile lawsuit and a criminal prosecution, the GirlsDoPorn website is still online.

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